Explanatory style, expectations, and depressive symptoms

One hundred and fifty-five college students completed questionnaires measuring explanatory style, general expectations for future good and bad events, specific expectations for future good and bad events, and depressive symptoms. Structural equation modeling confirmed the prediction of the attributi...

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Published in:Personality and individual differences 2001-11, Vol.31 (7), p.1217-1223
Main Authors: Peterson, Christopher, Vaidya, Robert S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Biological and medical sciences
Depression
Expectations
Explanatory style
Learned helplessness
Learned helplessness reformulation
Medical sciences
Mood disorders
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
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Summary:One hundred and fifty-five college students completed questionnaires measuring explanatory style, general expectations for future good and bad events, specific expectations for future good and bad events, and depressive symptoms. Structural equation modeling confirmed the prediction of the attributional reformulation of learned helplessness theory that the link between stability and globality of explanatory style and depression is mediated by expectations. Implications of these results were discussed.
ISSN:0191-8869
1873-3549
DOI:10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00221-X